Lunch-carrier.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN FESLER, oE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH'.

LUNCH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION :Forming` part of Letters Patent No. 657,529, dated September 11, 1900.

Application led October 5, 1399.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN FESLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented a new and useful Lunch- Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in means for attaching a lunch pail or box to a bicycle-bar in a convenient manner; and it consists in providing the top of said can or pail with two spring-retained rods secured in two downwardly-extending tubular projections of a sleeve attached to the reach-bar of a bicycle.

My invention further consists in certain de- 4 tails of construction and peculiar combinations of parts, as will be fully described hereinafter, point-ed out in the claim, and illustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective lview of a portion of a bicycle, showing myinvention attached. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the top portion thereof, showing the bicycle-bar in elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the same; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a portion of the sleeve, illustrating the peculiar hinge.

Referring now to the drawings by reference-numerals, 5 indicates the reach-bar of a bicycle, on which is detachably secured a tubular support 6, comprising two semicircular sections 7 and 8, hinged at their respective ends. These hinges consist of two sets of lugs 9 and 10, connected by a longitudinally-arranged rod 11, and two semicylindrical sections of the tubular support are held in contact with the bar 5 of the bicycle by a coil-spring 12, surrounding said rod and the free ends of which extend upwardly and downwardly at 13 and 14, respectively, to hold said sections closed.

Serial No. 732,687. (No model.)

V 15 and 1G are depending tubular projections secured tothe under section of the support 6, and each projection is provided with an upturned iiange 17 to form a seat for the coiled springs 18. These springs surround the supporting-rods 19 and abut against the disks or Vheads 2O thereon to form a cushioned support for the lunch-box, said rods 19 being securely attached to the lid 21 of the lunch-box 22, and said box and lid are held together by springcatches 23.

By reason of the coiled springs and the supports which engage them any vibration of the machine will be taken up and the rattling noise which would otherwise occur will effectually be prevented.

The whole device can readily be removed from the'bicycle or other support by simply forcing the sections apart.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a simple, durable, and eEecti-ve lunch-carrier adapted to be readily attached to and detached from an ordinary bicycle.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent, is-

' In a lunch-carrier for bicycles, the combination, with two semicylindrical spring-actuated hinged sections, one of which is provided with a tubular projection near each end, the outer end of which is ianged inwardly, of a receptacle, the top of which is provided with a rod near each end to register with said projections, the end of which is headed, and a coiled spring around the rod within each projection, one end of which bears against the head and the other end bears against the flange. f

v MARTIN -FESLER Witnesses:

B. S. HARRINGTON, JAMES LANGToN. 

